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jodymarie aimee

(3,975 posts)
Wed Dec 5, 2018, 06:52 PM Dec 2018

I find it sad that we are not the United STATES of America...

folks in other states have no idea who we are and what we go thru....the last 2 days in WI were our last hope. We are thoroughly fucked now...the 3 bills (287 pages) had everything in them from courts to roads to pre existing conditions and healthcare to gerrymandering....

I myself know NC and MI and SC are in bad shape and I don't expect others to know what we live...now for almost a decade. When we did Walker's recall, Obama said he would put boots on the ground and march with us..but when it came time, he stayed FAR away from us..he had his reasons..and we only got a bit of national $$ towards the end. We have never been a match for the Kochs..

When you come down to it, we are not United at all...we are just a bunch of states...and today it makes Wisconsin Jody cry....

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I find it sad that we are not the United STATES of America... (Original Post) jodymarie aimee Dec 2018 OP
I am so sorry, jodymarie aimee Ohiogal Dec 2018 #1
they have bought the courts AND the attnys.... jodymarie aimee Dec 2018 #2
NC is in slightly better shape. mwooldri Dec 2018 #3
It took them (the Kochs) twenty years to build the monster pecosbob Dec 2018 #4
Michigan's savior is Proposal 2. roamer65 Dec 2018 #5

Ohiogal

(31,669 posts)
1. I am so sorry, jodymarie aimee
Wed Dec 5, 2018, 07:03 PM
Dec 2018

Those evil fuckers!!! Can the Dems sue and claim that eliminating the will of the people is unconstitutional or illegal?

I am just as depressed down here in Ohio, we have a red state govt. as well.

 

jodymarie aimee

(3,975 posts)
2. they have bought the courts AND the attnys....
Wed Dec 5, 2018, 07:05 PM
Dec 2018

every time we came close to getting Walker he put his own judges and lawyers in..We got so excited about the John Doe..and splat..

mwooldri

(10,291 posts)
3. NC is in slightly better shape.
Wed Dec 5, 2018, 07:13 PM
Dec 2018

NC Supreme Court has more "Democrats" than "Reptiles". So Roy Cooper and Josh Stein can go the legal route if necessary.

But I believe there could be more uniformity between the States when it comes to how the government is set up.

Methinks the incoming Wisconsin AG will have their hands full with the legislature and testing the State constitution to its limits.

pecosbob

(7,511 posts)
4. It took them (the Kochs) twenty years to build the monster
Wed Dec 5, 2018, 07:20 PM
Dec 2018

It may take longer to unwind it. The Dems (our) abandonment of labor is disheartening. The right has demonized the worker for forty years and the Dems (we) let them do it. Seven governorships went Dem this election and in virtually all these states, the Kochs have sway, and the Sinclairs control local news and advertising, and in most of these states they will place every barricade they can conceive to stimy change. They haven't gone away just because they got scolded by this group of voters. This will only make them double down on their disenfranchisement efforts. I'm sixty and I expect this fight to last longer than I will.

roamer65

(36,739 posts)
5. Michigan's savior is Proposal 2.
Wed Dec 5, 2018, 08:25 PM
Dec 2018

At most these scumbags have one more election before the districts are redrawn fairly. That will be the end of Repuke control in MI. We will then repeal all of their garbage.

Our proposals were the best in all of the 50 states in the midterms.

Proposal 1, 2 and 3 become law in MI in 4 hours and 30 minutes.

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